Keir Starmer is facing a backlash for his lack of a response to Elon Musk’s persistent attacks on the UK since the tech tycoon secured a job with Donald Trump. The CEO of X started to criticise Starmer’s government in the summer by perpetuating the “two-tier policing” conspiracy theory amid the far-right riots.

In 2012, the Tesla tycoon Elon Musk took a Boris bike on a tour around London bathing in the Olympics love-in, declaring to his Twitter followers that “I really like Britain!”.

Elon Musk criticized the British government, continuing his feud by calling the U.K. a “tyrannical police state” as the country grapples with violent unrest. In a post on X, the social platform that Musk owns,

Elon Musk has taken another swipe at Keir Starmer, as his weird obsession with the prime minister continues. The X owner once again used his site to have a pop at the Labour leader, this time about his plummeting approval ratings.

Britain’s PM lurches from one self-inflicted mini-crisis to the next. He might say he’s playing a long game, but is he digging a hole too deep to climb out of?